← America's New Cavalry
Low-tech and tiny, Kiowa helicopters have become our air weapon of choice in Afghanistan — the best friend of the soldier in trouble on the ground. The untold story of the “flying lawn mowers” and the gutsy men who pilot them.
posted on September 07, 2010 ∞
This is the kind of album that gives you faith in the future of music. It is not rock and roll, but it’s nothing stereotyped as jazz either. All at once, it owes almost as much to the techniques developed by rock improvisors in the last four years as to Davis’ jazz background. It is part of a transcendental new music which flushes categories away and, while using musical devices from all styles and cultures, is defined mainly by its deep emotion and unaffected originality.— Lester Bangs on Miles Davis
posted on September 01, 2010 ∞
hotels.com has really outdone themselves with this excellent map to my hotel on Bainbridge Island for a wedding in a few weeks…
posted on August 25, 2010 ∞
(via) Seattle Bartender wins best bartender in the nation award. This is him making one of his most famous signature drinks.
posted on August 24, 2010 ∞
← Gladiator 2 by Nick Cave
Nick Cave wrote this incredibly surreal script for the sequel to Gladiator. No, it doesn’t matter that Russel Crowe’s character died… somehow.
Ended up looking for this after watching Cave talk about the script in a Q&A session in Ottawa.
Definitely worth a read if you’re interested in screenplays. I haven’t gotten through it all yet, but the narrative is pretty interesting so far.
posted on August 13, 2010 ∞
Diagram of 62cm Surly Crosscheck frame.
Last summer I took this drawing so that I could order a sweet custom frame bag from Revelate Designs. After drawing it, I realized I didn’t need that much storage on the bike. But I couldn’t find any diagrams of schematics or CAD drawings of a Cross Check on the internet, so I figured this one might be useful to someone.
It’s always funny what random old shit you find when you’re backing up all the photos you’ve taken in the past year…
posted on August 11, 2010 ∞
It’s clear that Duane Allman was one of the true innovators of the electric guitar to rise in the Sixties; arguably on par with Hendrix, he was just beginning to sort out the universe of sound in a high distinctive and moving way— Lester Bangs, February 1, 1973
posted on August 10, 2010 ∞
HP Labs’ Vinay Deolalikar claims to have a solution to the famous problem. Wonder how long it will take to verify so he can get his $1 million from the Millennium Prize.
posted on August 08, 2010 ∞
Amazing! Meticulously crafted image compilations using modern day photos as the base, and overlaying pictures from WW II on top.
This must have taken a lot of patience. I’m wondering if any stretching/skewing was done or if the modern day pictures were just nearly perfectly taken. I’m guessing there must have been some skewing going on, but the pictures don’t really look it.
posted on August 03, 2010 ∞
I got drunk Wednesday night, and around 1 AM I wandered home. I happened to notice these two dudes in a dark Cal Anderson, practicing all sorts of weird dance moves on the artificial turf. Being drunk, I took awful pictures. It was also damn dark out. Anyway, I’ll have to get out there with a better camera body and more sobriety at some point, since apparently they practice out there a bunch.
posted on July 30, 2010 ∞
to periphery.org, a weblog that I maintain. Every time a lightbulb goes off in my head, I try to post the solution here. I also tend to post interesting quotes, links, etc.
I also post code here. I try to maintain it in a Git repo, and every time I check in something new I'll write an entry here with some explanation and examples.
